2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Playing God’ Director Matteo Burani
'Playing God,' a skin-crawling stop-motion short where abandoned clay figures fight for identity and belonging, earned qualification by winning the grand jury award at Animayo.
'Playing God,' a skin-crawling stop-motion short where abandoned clay figures fight for identity and belonging, earned qualification by winning the grand jury award at Animayo.
Focused on “high-quality work made by people who love the craft,” Zam aims to revive the magic of classic cartoons with modern animation and VFX techniques.
Canadian gem 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' and other standout shorts, features, and student films were also celebrated as this year’s festival wrapped things up.
Spike & Mike’s cult-favorite Animation Extravaganza returns Oct. 31–Nov. 2 with new shorts, rare vault gems, and timeless offbeat animated chaos.
Over 300 short films from 50+ countries premiere in To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam, uniting animators in solidarity with Gaza.
Oscar-nominated animation icon Joanna Quinn unveils 'This Land Is a Woman,' part of a global anijam uniting artists in solidarity with Gaza.
The Quay Brothers’ long-awaited return feature, 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,' premieres August 29 at Film Forum.
"Let us live; let us go home; stop the bombs," said Annecy's artistic director Marcel Jean at Saturday night's closing ceremony.
A deep dive into three new indie Canadian features screening at Annecy.
Director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat speaks about his bigscreen accomplishment and how he turned limitations, like a lack of animators in his country, into an opportunity to experiment creatively.
'Dandelion's Odyssey,' which premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, presents a daring fusion of time-lapse photography, robots, cg animation, and macro-photography.
We take a look at ten new shorts screening at this year's Annecy Festival.
Watch a half-hour conversation with 'Love Death & Robots' creator/director/executive producer Tim Miller and series supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
Dozens of animated features are being presented at the Cannes Film Market this week. Here are some of the ones that caught our attention.
There's a good reason to pay close attention to these three animated films premiering at Cannes.
The Annecy Festival's artistic director provides commentary on why each feature film was selected for competition.
Fierlinger carved out a singular path in animation — one marked by a distinct visual voice, a relentless work ethic, and a deep emotional honesty.
The cut-out animated shorts, initially created for his young daughter, have now been compiled into a feature-length film.
This collage film about a daughter and father attempting to reconnect combines letters, stop-motion cutouts, rotoscoping, and archival photos.
Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.